Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

Announcements and Updates

Earlier this week, it appeared that Creation Asylum dying was about to happen much sooner as lestat3179 noted an extremely aggressive number of spam attacks. But DerVVulfman later reported that Dubealex, Creation Asylum's owner, took aggressive action on his own and added DerVVulfman to his staff so he can deal with any spambots that he encounters.

There's been a bit more GAIN in the Creation Asylum archiving efford by DerVVulfman as he's snagged more pages of the unsorted RPGMaker XP scripts while Siletrea cheers him on.

Occasions

This week, both Alenthas and darthsqueaky visited the forum. Very little in regards of introductions, they both shared the same topic while DerVVulfman asked them to supply a little more information about themselves.

If you were wondering what became of KDC, he made an appearance to let everyone know he moved to his new place, but doesn't have internet right now and is communicating through hotspots. Still, he's been unpacking things, gone to a wedding, played some Mario golf, and has begun checking out one of his projects from his backups.

There was a touch of sadness if you wanted to know What's on the Mind of Bounty Hunter Lani and DerVVulfman, as a truck slammed into the Adrenaline Mob's RV. Many members were hurt, but their basist, David Z ( or Zablidowsky) also of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra was killed. Later this week, Bounty Hunter Lani had issues with her copy of Avast and deleted it, only to use MalwareBytes to find some potential problems. But DerVVulfman claimed to have nearly the opposite reaction between the two antivirus programs.

DerVVulfman went a bit retro with robots and technomusic if you want to know What he was YouTubing. Lestat had a more orchestral pop piece he received as a recommendation from Youtube. And after that, Bounty Hunter Lani revisited John Wolfe as he revisited one of the games he previously reviewed, now complete. But it the week couldn't be all that complete if Bounty Hunter Lani didn't find some videos of internet scam artists getting trashed.

This week, lestat3187 wished to remind everyone about July 12th being a day of action of Net Neutrality as the FCC wishes to allow big cable companies control over the content which we can access, though "Title II of the Communications Act" is the legal foundation which prevents service providers such as Comcast, Verison and the like from slowing down or blocking websites to garner extra fees. Don't let yourself be fooled by AT&T's claim they wanted your support in favor of Net Neutrality as they were clearly not on the list of Net Neurality and Title II's supporters.

Once again, we ask you about the Stuff you love but no one else seems to. As such, kyonides seems to think that no one else loves his scripts, but they're his children and invests time and effort into their creation. lestat3187 hadn't had much time to help kyonides on his KUnits script but felt it was nearly perfect. And DerVVulfman has high regards for kyonides's States script, Kolluseum States. However, it seems that lestat3187 and DerVVulfman have some comically critical thoughts about the anime, Crying Freeman.

Games Development

Development Discussion

Tired of playing catch-up with your fellow members? If so, then you may wish to ask What's Up on their endeavors. Well, sprite graphics are heading towards Ahzoh as a friend of his just supplied him with a render of one of the main characters Sem'eli Humri.

When Melana visits the Maps and screenshots thread, visual splendor appears. She has been playing with some tilesets from Celianna a while and rendered a forest pathway with streaming rays of sunlight for our pleasure.

General Support

Keeroh was working on a minigame and when he removed actors from his party the Equipment on the Actors vanished. He didn't understand why the newly equipped weapons and armor no longer existed. While kyonides thought it wasn't normal behavior and assumed it was script related, DerVVulfman was curious if Keeroh was using the 'Change Party Member' event and reinitialized the actor(s) back to their starting stats. It just so happened, that was exactly what Keeroh was doing. Once he unchecked the options, the actors kept their goods.

Code Support

This week, Diorm was looking for a way to add a Special Menu for Items
in RPGMaker XP. DerVVulfman and Kyonides had their own thoughts on what could be done, but Diorm isn't a scripter. However, he did post a mockup of what he actually desired. DerVVulfman asked for clarification, just to make sure that Diord wanted two individual Item menus to appear in the main menu as the screenshot implied.

Tutorials

DerVVulfman posted an old article by Angroth, only to find out that he already uploaded the Norse Mythology essay earlier. After lestat3187 made a post, DerVVulfman corrected the mistake and moved lestat3187's reply to the proper thread on the Norse Mythos.

DerVVulfman had another of Angroth's essays available and posted an article about Colour Symbolism, and how the subtleties of color can affect the player's mood in much the same way as music.

Material Development

Scripts Database

This week, kyonides remained hard at work on KUnits XP, making updates and taking care of minor bugs along the way. More features appeared within such as being able to interact with other party leaders, allowing the actual party leader abandon his squad, and much more as the system code was streamlined. Kyonides updated his script daily, if not multiple times a day, with new features, fixes and screenshots. And this Sunday, kyonides announced that a version for RPGMaker VX in the works. An early version can be found in the same upload folder as his script for RPGMaker XP.

Have you ever wanted to go beyond the 500x500 map size limit with RPGMaker XP? If so, DerVVulfman's new BIG MAPS script will let you get around that limitation. It lets you chain multiple equal-sized maps together, and includes an error-checking system to make sure the maps are configured properly. After a little discussion with DrHouse83 about what other systems work with Big Maps, DerVVulfman noticed a minor fault which he fixed this weekend.

Well, that's it for this week.

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